On Oct 26, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Charles Lenington wrote:
> Yes, please. General instructions: 1) Your choice of case and PSU (Antec 300 or better, with Antec 500 "EarthWatts" or better PSU), 2) Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3L or similar mobo, 3) your choice of nVidia video card (any of the 7000, 8000 and some 9000 will do), 4) your choice of processor (Intel E8400 C2D is very good, an Intel 9450 C2Q is better, although most work only needs a C2D), 5) Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7 water cooling unit, 6) 2 GB to 8 GB of PC2-6400 RAM (any of the usual suspects will do, even most generics), 7) any generic Firewire PCI card (VIA chip set works well), 8) any generic R8169 gigabit Ethernet card, 9) your choice of SATA optical drive (Lite-On 20X or Samsung 22X DVD burner), and 10) your choice of SATA hard drive (Seagate 500, 750 or 1000 GB, plus a second for backup). There, that should get you started. I built two, mostly from components I already had on-hand, including some "organ donors" from my Psystar OpenComputer (nee' Open Mac). Overall cost is influenced by what you have available. I've build examples with E1200, E2200, E4400, E8400 and Q6600 processors, and G31/ICH7 and P35/ICH9 motherboards. The smallest, and perhaps the least expensive, were Shuttle G31-based examples, which utilized hand-me-down IDE hard and optical drives, and entry-level Core 2 (but branded as Pentium) dual core processors. The Shuttles themselves were obtained from Shuttle for $129 as factory refurbished examples, but were actual brand-new in every respect. I've built HackBooks using GMAX3100/ICH7 laptops, too. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
